The first time I saw Mary and Max, I didn’t like it. It is a very deep bittersweet film about the friendship of two very incomplete souls. It brought tears to my eyes. The subsequent times after watching it, I feel that this world is rather cruel to individuals who they deemed as “incomplete” and would prefer to look the other way than to deal with it. Mary and Max is about the unlikely friendship between an 8-year old girl who lives in Melbourne and a 44-year old man in New York. Their friendship started when Mary writes to Max and ask him where babies comes from in New York. Max is obese and goes to Overeaters Anonymous every Thursdays to try and lose weight because his psychiatrist says a healthy body equals a healthy mind. . He has an imaginary
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He cannot understand why she is behaving that way. Flirting is as foreign as jogging to Max. He has trouble expressing his emotions and thus, unable to tell her to stop. Therefore he rubbed onion under his armpits to try and repel her instead.
Identity vs Role Confusion (Stage 5) of Eric Eriksson’s Psychosocial Development states that this is a major stage in social skills development. The age range for this stage is from 13-19 and during this stage, the adolescent will ask Who Am I? The adolescent will explore possibilities and try to form their own identity. Success in this stage will lead to virtue of fidelity. Fidelity involves that the adolescent must be able to accept peers?? And to be accepted in return. Max has Asperger’s Syndrome therefore he lacks two way communication skills and because his mind is very literal, he cannot understand humour and sarcasm. He will have difficulty forming social relationships and fails to be accepted by his peers. Mr Erikson states that failure to establish a sense of identity within society can lead to role confusion. Role confusion involves the individual being unsure of themselves and their place in the society and may experience depression and social anxiety. Max has worked as a token collector at the subway, factory worker packaging kosher food, printing Frisbees and a condom factory. He has also worked as a garbage collector and at the stationery department
He cannot understand why she is behaving that way. Flirting is as foreign as jogging to Max. He has trouble expressing his emotions and thus, unable to tell her to stop. Therefore he rubbed onion under his armpits to try and repel her instead.
Identity vs Role Confusion (Stage 5) of Eric Eriksson’s Psychosocial Development states that this is a major stage in social skills development. The age range for this stage is from 13-19 and during this stage, the adolescent will ask Who Am I? The adolescent will explore possibilities and try to form their own identity. Success in this stage will lead to virtue of fidelity. Fidelity involves that the adolescent must be able to accept peers?? And to be accepted in return. Max has Asperger’s Syndrome therefore he lacks two way communication skills and because his mind is very literal, he cannot understand humour and sarcasm. He will have difficulty forming social relationships and fails to be accepted by his peers. Mr Erikson states that failure to establish a sense of identity within society can lead to role confusion. Role confusion involves the individual being unsure of themselves and their place in the society and may experience depression and social anxiety. Max has worked as a token collector at the subway, factory worker packaging kosher food, printing Frisbees and a condom factory. He has also worked as a garbage collector and at the stationery department